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But now apart from the law (nuni de chōris nomou). He now (nuni emphatic logical transition) proceeds carefully in Rom 3:21-31 the nature of the God-kind of righteousness which stands manifested (dikaiosunē theou pephanerōtai, perfect passive indicative of phaneroō, to make manifest), the necessity of which he has shown in 1:18-3:20. This God kind of righteousness is “apart from law” of any kind and all of grace (chariti) as he will show in Rom 3:24. But it is not a new discovery on the part of Paul, but “witnessed by the law and the prophets” (marturoumenē, present passive participle, hupo tou nomou kai tōn prophētōn), made plain continuously by God himself.